[Dxbase] dxbase2007 and windows vista

[Wes N7WS]

joe voelkelt wrote:
> still have had no luck in getting dxbase 2007 to run on my computer with windows vista, however i have managed a work around to the problem and that is to reinstall dxbase 2006 from the cd rom i got when i purchased dxbase 2006 and dxbase 2006 now works fine no problem at all, but no matter what i do have not figured out how to get dxbase to get out of the demo mode, i have tried installing in a new directory, reapplying registration key etc. did e mail scientific solutions and hope to get cd rom from them with dx base 2007 and see if that will work. thanks to all for their suggestions and help, will keep everyone up to date on this problem.  joe  kl7lf
> ______________________________________________________________
>   
Joe,

I'm no expert on this and I still use DXBase 2005 but when I went to a 
new machine running Vista I did have a tear-your-hair-out problem for a 
bit.  This may not have anything to do with your issues, but it's 
offered as an FYI.

In my cramped shack I log on an old laptop running XP-Pro and do my 
QSLing, refdata changing, etc on a desktop in another room where I have 
more deskspace.  I use a LAN to connect the two and normally I do an 
import from the laptop into the desktop log and then when it is up to 
date and compacted, I copy it back to the laptop.  Maybe not the best 
way to do it, but it's worked for me until I replaced the desktop with a 
new Vista machine.

I won't bore you with the horrific problems that I've had with the LAN 
but the file issues I've had might be applicable to your situation.

In a nutshell, Vista decides where it's going to save some files and to 
hell with where you want them.  I discovered this when I tried copying 
back to my laptop the N7WS.mdb file located in C:\Program Files\DXBase 
2005 and it wasn't up to date. After a lot of grief I determined that 
Vista was saving the file at C:\Users\Wes\AppData\Local\Virtual 
Store\Program Files\DXBase 2005\ .

So on the same machine I had two versions of the log, but they weren't 
the same.  This is true of refdata.mdb and some others.  My registration 
file is where I think it should be, but maybe you should double check this.

Good luck,

Wes